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Paperback / softback. New. New Book; Fast Shipping from UK; Not signed; Not First Edition; In this second edition of The Repeating Island, Antonio Benitez-Rojo, a master of the historical novel, short story, and critical essay, continues to confront the legacy and myths of colonialism. This co-winner of the 1993 MLA Katherine ISBN 0822318652 9780822318651 [GB]
ISBN10: 0822318652, ISBN13: 9780822318651, [publisher: Duke University Press, North Carolina] Softcover Paperback. In this second edition of The Repeating Island, Antonio Benitez-Rojo, a master of the historical novel, short story, and critical essay, continues to confront the legacy and myths of colonialism. This co-winner of the 1993 MLA Katherine Singer Kovacs Prize has been expanded to include three entirely new chapters that add a Lacanian perspective and a view of the carnivalesque to an already brilliant interpretive study of Caribbean culture. As he did in the first edition, Benitez-Rojo redefines the Caribbean by drawing on history, economics, sociology, cultural anthropology, psychoanalysis, literary theory, and nonlinear mathematics. His point of departure is chaos theory, which holds that order and disorder are not the antithesis of each other in nature but function as mutually generative phenomena. Benitez-Rojo argues that within the apparent disorder of the Caribbean-the area's discontinuous landmasses, its different colonial histories, ethnic groups, languages, traditions, and politics-there emerges an "island" of paradoxes that repeats itself and gives shape to an unexpected and complex sociocultural archipelago. Benitez-Rojo illustrates this unique form of identity with powerful readings of texts by Las Casas, Guillen, Carpentier, Garcia Marquez, Walcott, Harris, Buitrago, and Rodriguez Julia. In this section edition of the Repeating ...
ISBN10: 0822318652, ISBN13: 9780822318651, [publisher: Duke University Press, North Carolina] Softcover Paperback. In this second edition of The Repeating Island, Antonio Benitez-Rojo, a master of the historical novel, short story, and critical essay, continues to confront the legacy and myths of colonialism. This co-winner of the 1993 MLA Katherine Singer Kovacs Prize has been expanded to include three entirely new chapters that add a Lacanian perspective and a view of the carnivalesque to an already brilliant interpretive study of Caribbean culture. As he did in the first edition, Benitez-Rojo redefines the Caribbean by drawing on history, economics, sociology, cultural anthropology, psychoanalysis, literary theory, and nonlinear mathematics. His point of departure is chaos theory, which holds that order and disorder are not the antithesis of each other in nature but function as mutually generative phenomena. Benitez-Rojo argues that within the apparent disorder of the Caribbean-the area's discontinuous landmasses, its different colonial histories, ethnic groups, languages, traditions, and politics-there emerges an "island" of paradoxes that repeats itself and gives shape to an unexpected and complex sociocultural archipelago. Benitez-Rojo illustrates this unique form of identity with powerful readings of texts by Las Casas, Guillen, Carpentier, Garcia Marquez, Walcott, Harris, Buitrago, and Rodriguez Julia. In this section edition of the Repeating ...
ISBN10: 0822318652, ISBN13: 9780822318651, [publisher: Duke University Press Books] Softcover First Edition First Edition thus. The Repeating Island by Antonio Benitez-Rojo. Published by Duke University Press Books in 1997. Paperback ISBN:9780822318651. Collectible item in very fine condition. [Antwerpen, Belgium] [Publication Year: 1997]
ISBN10: 0822318652, ISBN13: 9780822318651, [publisher: Duke University Press Books] Softcover New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title! 1.3 [North Las Vegas, NV, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 1997]
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